Ancient society
or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery through barbarism to civilization
by Lewis Henry Morgan, Lewis Morgan, Lewis H. Morgan, Lewis Henry Morgan, Lewis Henry Morgan, and Lewis H Morgan
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"Ancient Society defines three major stages in the cultural and social evolution of mankind. Morgan describes how savages, advancing by definite steps, attained the higher condition of barbarism. He then explores how barbarians, by similar progressive advancement, finally attained civilization. Finally he discusses why other tribes and nations have been left behind in the race of progress. Inventions and discoveries show the similarity of human wants at the same stages of advancement, thus demonstrating the psychic unity of mankind. The idea of property - now an obsession in civilized society - underwent a similar process of growth and development, as did the principles of government. By the "comparative method" of using existing and historical societies as examples of previous stages, the history of human progress could be reconstructed. These parallel lines along the pathways of human progress form the principal subjects of discussion in Ancient Society."--BOOK JACKET.
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Political anthropology, Social evolution, Social structure, Primitive societies, History, Civilization, Sociology, Families, Family, Social life and customs, Description and travel, Primitive Society, Gamilaraay, Narrinjeri people (S69) (SA SI54-13), Kamilaroi people (D23) (NSW SH55-12), Ngarrindjeri, Gamilaroi, Urgesellschaft, Civilization, ancient, Ancient Civilization, Indigenous peoples, Ethnology, Anthropology, Prehistoric peoplesShowing 8 featured editions. View all 72 editions?
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First published 1877.
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"The latest investigations respecting the early condition of the human race, are tending to the conclusion that mankind commenced their career at the bottom of the scale and worked their way up from savagery to civilization through the slow accumulations of experimental knowledge."
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